Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror

Analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences, including women. Lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age

• | Author: Rikke Schubart
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: January 23, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501361619
• | ISBN-13: 9781501361616